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I suspect that any passengers waiting on the platform showered with wreckage probably wouldnt agree with you.

I think that one of the problems that the Wareham to Swanage service has is that a three hour each way trip is too long for a day trip for the non enthusiast market and that a £100 "cheap" day return as it was from Waterloo is just too expensive for the non priv market. The nearly £80 Off peak...

Depends on the time of your arrival at heathrow as the service is only 2 hourly but Id recomend considering a National Express service direct from T5 to Southampton. If you buy a standard ticket you can ammend it up until the time of travel for a £5 plus the difference in fare or you can buy a...

Since the last Great kent Bus Cuts theres one service per hour from the Pilot Inn Dungeness to Dover via Hythe per hour and one main coast bus per hour that from Dover goes to Lydd along New Romney high Street direct to Lydd Camp where it exchanges refugees wishing to travel to Sussex with a...

I dont think the 101 has got closer to the RHDR than Rye station for about 5 years.

Presumably subsidy should also be found for services to Dartmouth, Minehead, Holt, Dereham, Ongar, Oxenhope, Rawenstall, Bridgenorth, Blanae Ffestiniog, Caernarfon, Grantown, Pickering, Redmire etc., etc.

As i understand the legislation mainline stock has to be fully compliant with the regulations. The class 117 dmu can be operated by the Swanage Railway in the same way as charter stock by the charter companies under a derogation but if this was a national rail supported service it would need to...

if it was a national Rail type service it would need compliant rolling stock with disability access. One of the problems that the Swanage and other heritage railways have is that profit from shops (post Amazon - other internet retailers are available) and cafes (post minimum wage increases and...

I havent used the train from Headcorn since the pandemic because of car parking charges increase. I now drive to Tonbridge and use a private car park there which is a third of the railway car park price, I also benefit from disproportionately lower fares and a more frequent service. Despite...

I dont think that sleeping in a tent with 6 blokes, 1 of which we didnt know until we met him in sailors at 3am with nowhere to stay would be my choice now but it has definantly set up a bond with the town that makes me want to go back every so often even if id stay at the premier inn now!

Ive always had a soft spot for Newquay. I fondly remember long weekends on the only campsite that accepted all male groups (cant remember the name), where even back in the day you had to pay a £25 good behaviour deposit. There was a bus that ran all night to the various night clubs in town...

Theres no custom facilities at Calais since Eurostar ceased to call there (along with Ashford & Ebbsfleet). A Eurostar doesnt fit the le shuttle platforms.

My advice is if you can travel by day Sailrail is an adventure you should undertake. If you are travelling overnight my advice would be to look at the last flights on Ryanair from Gatwick with checked in hand luggage they are usually around £60.They will get you to Dublin around 10 to 11pm. Only...

Blackpool, the place is an absolute dump.

You should come down to Portsmouth (Fratton) where the same TOC have insufficient rolling stock to provide more than 2 cars of the contracted 5 and quite often cancel the Cardiff service altogether when 20,000 people are leaving the football. Theres usually about 2 to 3000 people queuing in the...

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I reckon the tie bars are part of the recovery effort. The locknut doesnt appear to be done up on the one furthest away.

Whilst I've been down by train and bus to Spain several times I must admit I've always Easyjetted back the extra day or two in Spain always makes it a non brainer to me. Probably doesn't help that due to my location Paris is an easy day trip.

Again, in this particular case I dont think thats correct. If you look at the history of the Swanage Branch although much loved by railway photographers it had gone in to terminal decline after WW2 because of competition from road transport primarily buses. Its last 30 years consisted of a...

Or in the case of GTR one operators scheme could be used on all their trains. Our railusers group were told that keygo would be extended to Portsmouth/Southampton in a few months something like 6 years ago!